TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Evaluation of mental health emergency preparedness among health professionals
JO  - Journal of allied health
A1  - Ablah, Elizabeth
A1  - Hawley, Suzanne
A1  - Konda, Kurt M.
A1  - Wolfe, Daniel
A1  - Cook, D. J.
SP  - 144
EP  - 149
VL  - 37
IS  - 3
N2  - The purpose of this study was to identify if health professionals report an increase in mental health preparedness abilities with having only two mental health components as part of a 2-day preparedness training conference. At each of three conferences, identical pretraining and posttraining surveys were administered to conference participants. A 3-month follow-up survey was administered to respondents who volunteered to complete them. At pretraining, respondents (n = 603) reported generally greater mental health preparedness abilities than non-mental health preparedness abilities. This trend continued at posttraining (n = 490) and at 3 months posttraining (n = 195). Participants reported significantly increased mental health preparedness abilities at immediate posttraining and at 3 months posttraining from pretraining. This current study suggests that even when mental health items are included as a secondary component of disaster preparedness training, significant and meaningful growth in participants' confidence in their abilities can occur.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0090-7421
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -